Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included

From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:47:31 +0200

as any unix/linux instalation,

solaris when is installed after a windows install ofer the bootmanager
option to choose amoung all installed systems at boot time.
Also it offers the posibility tio set the default operating system, the one
used if the user does not choose other option at boot time.
The partition used by unix/linux system are not visible to windows system
directly, but using file browsers like ext2fs

they can be browsed.

after uninstall of the unix/linux system you can see the partitions in
windows installation/unix installation and delete them and also using
partition software like partition magic you can see them and delete them to
free the alocated space.

If I will install OpenSolaris to a certain partition which is now used by
Windows, will that partition be visible to Windows?
If not, how could I make it visible again if I will want to uninstall
OpenSolaris in the future?

If I will follow the installation tips I read in the page you told me
about, the computer will prompt me if I want to boot from Windows or
OpenSolaris?

OpenSolaris 2008-11 is very accessible with Orca and has a reasonably
easy to use accessible install. By default Orca uses espeak on
OpenSolaris. In my opinion Orca is more responsive on OpenSolaris than on
Ubuntu 8.04.

First, I didn't say that Jaws is a Microsoft program. I said only that
the best accessibility is offered by Windows and Jaws and not by Orca
and Linux, but not even the comparison between these 2 is important, but
the fact that it is very hard to create another OS with another screen
reader built in.

Second, I know that Orca works with Linux, but Sun doesn't pretend that
they've created the most advanced Linux OS, but that they've created
Solaris, the most advanced OS.
However, Solaris is not accessible for the blind, or it is accessible
but only by using emacspeak, which has a very ugly interface and offers
a poor accessibility anyway, and I haven't tested Solaris so I don't
really know if it really supports emacspeak or it is just a future plan
for Sun.